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- 01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
Leaders typically ask, “Am I accomplishing my program?” But that is too narrow a view. Nonprofit leaders need to be more visionary. They need to stretch themselves more and worry about mission impact. I believe nonprofit leaders get too bogged down in View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and it didn’t work. Bradach and...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central...
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Francis Storrs
- 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case study method had such an enormous...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
one’s employees. That’s pretty good!” That classmate, David Karam, who operates 135 Wendy’s restaurant franchises in five states, says of Navasky, “Vic really ventured into the lion’s den at OPM — we were a pretty conservative bunch. But...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
is the book income they produce. The proposal to publicly report taxes paid is an eminently sensible idea. More ambitious alternatives should also be considered, including making corporate tax returns public so View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
a large company. Fortunately for SABO, in 1975 he accepted the company owner's offer to make him a major shareholder if he returned. Over the next decade, Andresen's leadership transformed the company. By 1987, SABO had grown to a...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story
and gave students insights as to what the CEO was trying to do and why he was having so much difficulty.” When Apple’s cofounder, Steve Jobs, returned to the company in 1997, he also moved quickly to make some changes, announcing that...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
that means core elements such as water, transportation, and roads, as well as access to seeds, fertilizers, and new training and technology. But any funder will be confronted with a situation where a potential grantee says, 'We'd like to...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
its competitors. A capability is a set of business processes, strategically understood.” Partly in response to new pressures to create shareholder wealth, companies did indeed improve their capabilities, but over time, the effort would...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we...
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- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
more focused on maximizing shareholder value." Specifically, a class taught by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital prompted her to write a paper on the nature of value. "I wrote a paper calling for a different kind of value...
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